Ephesians 1:9 Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself:

As I sat on the couch in my living room all sense of time and events escaped me. My children came to speak to me and I didn’t not know it. I was oblivious to all sights and sounds in the room. My wife asked me where I went when I finally came back to the present. I had no awareness of what had happened around me. I did however know what happened inside me.

The Holy Spirit took that time to take all the pieces of scripture that was on the floor of my mind and put them in order so that they formed the picture and it all fit together in order. I did nothing to sort out the mystery that was unfolded before me. It was God who enacted the ordering of His Word to allow me to make sense of it all.

In all my years I have not heard of anyone having a similar experience. If they have, I have not met them. It might have been God’s way of showing me that I needed more than just reading His Word. I was not in fellowship at this time. I worshipped alone. I had no pastor, no teacher, no fellowship and this was not God’s way. I needed the structure of an administration of God’s church body. I needed to be part of something more than just myself.

Luke 10ip Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet.

While Mary did the only needful thing, in hanging on every Word of Jesus, she did not sit there alone. That point is often lost on us because of the telling of Martha’s concerns for playing hostess and preparing food alone. She prepare it for many in her house while Mary was in fellowship with the many at the feet of Jesus.